Can anybody complete/correct the following skipping rhyme that’s running through my head ?
Culture
Michael J Murphy: influences
Although he was born in Liverpool, Michael had already, by the time he was taken home to Dromintee in 1922, been brought up in an atmosphere of storytelling.
Fews Glossary: S 6
Dialect ‘S’ 6 of 7
Staff : stick
Stagger : attempt, ‘he staggered it anyhow’
Start : ‘you gave me a start’, scared me; commence, ‘start the game’
Place Names/Irish: Latt etc
Tullyhappy Tulach Apaidh – the ripe mound
Sturgan – the peak
Skegatillida Sceach a’tSeilide – the snail’s thorn bush
Maytown Maigh Tamhain – plain of the herds
Maghernahely Machire na’chilin – plain of the little church
Lissummon (actually Lissemor) – great fort
Goragh – goat-grazing place
Latt – cattle-grazing place
Killybodagh coil na mBodach – churl’s wood
Keggal cagal – cockle or tare’s land
Drumbanagher druimbeanchair – peaked ridge
Duvernagh Dubh Bhearnach – black gap
Cloughreagh cloch riach – grey stones
Carrickcruppen carraig chropain – outcrop rocks
Carricknagalliagh [na gCailleach]- rock of the veils
Ballynaleck baile na leac – townland of flagstones
Carrickbracken [bhreacain] – speckled rock
Spirit of Spring
The mind’s eye sees it – the spirit of a spring morning – and the instinct senses it, quick as thought: a new presence which was not around the morning before, nor the night before – nor the day before.
End for end, boys!
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